First up this week is Metric with one of my favorite songs, Twilight Galaxy, off their "new" album Fantasies. This song is a little slower and more mellow then most off the album or even in their catalog of songs but has a great beat to draw you in. One of my favorite things from this song is Emily Haines's voice and how hypnotizing it is. Also the background vocals and the lyrics are great. This song has been on repeat for the past month and a half and I still haven't gotten sick of it. Some of my favorites off this album are Gold Gun Girls, Help I'm Alive and the newest single Stadium Love. I recommend seeing them live, it's an amazing concert and the music is great. After all these years each one of their albums gets better then the rest. I look forward to what they have to offer next. Here's a fan made video:
Next up is fun, yep that's the name of the band. I recently came across these guys by doing some research on Steel Train. As it turns out Jack Antonoff who is in Steel Train is also in fun along with Nate Ruess, formerly of The Format and ex-Anathallo multi-instrumentalist Andrew Dost. My thought is if you're going to have a band named fun, it should really be fun and a good listen. These guys do not let down. Their debut album Aim and Ignite is a great cd to listen to from start to finish. The lead singing, Nate, has a very unique and distinctive sound. One of my favorite songs off the album is The Gambler. His lyrics through out the song are so descriptive and touching then when you add together with the piano and violin parts it turns into a very lovely heartfelt song. This is a great cd and I recommend you give it a shot and listen to it all. But if you don't have all that time I recommend All the Pretty Girls, Be Calm and At Least I'm Not As Sad (As I Used to Be). Here's a fan video:
Going along with slow sentimental songs I'm going to focus on a great song by Sick of Sarah called Paint Like That. I first heard of this group from a television show with a completely different type of song. But after going through their albums I came across this song and immediately fell in love with it. I'm a sucker for emotional heart felt songs that just focuses on the singer and a solo acoustic guitar. This is a great song and is totally different from anything else I've heard from them, but hope that the new album they're working on right now will contain a few songs like this. Going along with this song I'm going to offer up another one of their songs so you can see the difference. Can't wait to hear more from this band from Minneapolis.
Now a more upbeat rock song, here's a fan made video for Mr Incredible:
Last but not least for this week is the Yeah Yeah Yeahs with Skeletons. I had been listening to the radio and had come across a song by them and thought that I was either listening to Metric or maybe even The XX. But after listening to the whole song I realized that couldn't have been one of their songs because I had never heard it before. So I waited patiently until the song came to an end and found out that the song was Heads Will Roll. I still sometimes have an issue determining if it's them at first listen but not nearly as often as I did. I got their album and immediately loved the use of the piano, drums, guitar and not to mention Karen O's vocal style. It reminded me of everything that I love about Metric. This is what Joe had said about them when I first played it for him, "she's got such great urgency to her voice and is just like here! Listen to this! Their lyrics are great and they have a signature to them that's all YYY's. Such a seductive song." I couldn't agree more.
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